Toward a definition and classification of human interest narratives in television war reporting

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1540-1549

  Piazza, Roberta ^a   Haarman, Louann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hard and soft news; Human interest news; Narrative; News values; Television news; Verbal visual fit

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952008359     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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